Video: Watch a girl grow up in two minutes

Every parent will tell you that it all goes by so fast. The diaper days, the toddler years, and even the terrible teens all fly by so quickly that it’s difficult to find the time to capture your children’s memorable moments in a baby book or a photo album. And what about the thousands of digital images filling space on an external hard drive at the bottom of a dusty drawer?

One dedicated and disciplined dad decided to ditch the traditional ways of capturing his kid’s childhood and took a short video clip of his daughter everyday from birth to age 12. Frans Hofmeester went a step further and used the footage to create this incredible time-lapse video that shows her growth in two minutes. It’s a perfect metaphor for how many parents feel as their kids grow up and reach new milestones at a speed that’s seemingly breakneck.

The video posted on Vimeo on April 18 and has been viewed nearly 2 million times since then.